229 businessmen fail to pay tax

229 businessmen fail to pay tax

BOGOR: A total of 229 businesspeople in Bogor have not paid
this year's land and building tax, amounting to Rp 7 billion.

Head of the Financial Management and Regional Budget Office
Pery Suparman said on Tuesday that he had summoned them, but only
60 had appeared. They said they had been unable to make the
payments in good time -- before July -- because of slow business
and had asked for more time, to the end of the year, to make the
payments.

Pery said his office had imposed fines amounting to as much as
two percent per month for late payments.

By September this year, Bogor had collected Rp 41.6 billion in
land and building tax, while the target was Rp 65.4 billion.

He predicted that by the end of the year, his office would
have achieved only 75 percent of its target. --JP